2023-07-05 07:01:00
During the past few days, cigarette prices witnessed significant unofficial increases that reached a 100% increase, as the unofficial price of Cleopatra and Cleopatra box reached 45 pounds, the unofficial price of LM cigarettes about 55 pounds, Marlboro 60 pounds, and Merritt 69 pounds.
The Head of the Tobacco Division, Ibrahim Imbaby, said that the delay in issuing the tax adjustment on cigarette prices is the reason for the huge increases in cigarettes at the present time, and their sale on the black market.
The head of the tobacco division explained, in televised statements, that the tax amendment will increase from 2 to 3 pounds per pack as a maximum, while the increase at the present time reaches 20 pounds or more..
Cigarette prices to the consumer
The Eastern Tobacco Company, through televised statements by Hani Aman, Managing Director and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Eastern Tobacco Company, denied a new increase in cigarette prices.
The head of the Eastern Company for Tobacco said: The cigarette sector did not raise prices, adding that the prices are as they are and we sell to merchants at the same official price everywhere in Egypt.
The company’s board of directors approved the new price list for the consumer price on the first of April, as the Eastern Company raised the prices of all its products including cigarettes, cigars, honey, pipe smoke and hair.
Cigarette prices today
The head of the Eastern Company for Tobacco said: The cigarette sector did not raise prices, and the prices are as they are, and we sell to merchants at the same official price everywhere in Egypt.
Aman explained that the price of a pack of Cleopatra cigarettes and all types is 25 pounds, pointing out that there is a black market for cigarettes, and the price of a pack has reached 40 pounds.
Hani Aman, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Eastern Tobacco Company, added that at this time of each year, merchants expect a rise in cigarette prices, and therefore they raised prices in anticipation of any rise, and this is not normal.
Official cigarette prices
The increase for cigarettes ranged between two pounds to three pounds per pack, after the last increase that was approved in April 2023.
The price of (box 10) is 15 pounds.
Cleopatra king size 23 pounds.
Cleopatra Soft Queen 24 pounds.
Boston/Blument 24 pounds, Cleopatra Box (white/colour) 24 pounds.
Cleopatra Super to 24 pounds, Mondial (red / blue / silver) 24 pounds.
Mondial Switch (Mentol/Blueberry) 24 pounds.
Cleopatra Black 24 pounds, and Matossian Super 24 pounds.
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